📢June Issue of TIBG📢 The latest issue of TIBG is fully #OpenAccess, representing the breadth of the discipline with topics ranging from legal geography & court spaces to Chinese geopolitics, chickens, & dating apps. Read the whole issue here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661... #geosky

The Animal Geography Working Group is now on Bluesky. Give us a follow @rgs-agwg.bsky.social to keep up with new essays, events, and more!

Jacqui's harrowing testimony to the #spycops public inquiry took it to another level. A vulnerable woman just out of her teens, undercover officer Bob Lambert targeted her for sex & had a childwith her, knowing he'd abandon them both when his deployment ended. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

A great blog from Carly Baker about animal methods "without" methods. Have a read here: www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/met...

Excited to be advertising this collaborative PhD project idea with @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social

The section engages with a range of controversies and dilemmas related to theoretical, digital, more-than-human and creative archives, and features lovely pieces by @katiecmoliver.bsky.social, Jack Palmer, Molly Drummond, as well as @wrighttom.bsky.social + me (plus a roundtable!)

The first special section to mark 20 years of Cultural Politics - 'Unfamiliar Archives' - has just come out; it was a huge pleasure to work on with some of my favourite academic colleagues: read.dukeupress.edu/cultural-pol... @dukepress.bsky.social

"Apocalyptic nothingness" has recently been published in Social & Cultural Geography (open access). In it, I investigate two shades of nothingness as they appear in both fictional and non-fictional apocalyptic imaginaries. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🐄🌬️ Our new paper on bovine #metabolism is out today in the new issue of Environmental Humanities! Adam Searle, Katie Oliver & I discuss how cows figure in metabolic interventions into the climate writ large. read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta... @admsrl.bsky.social @katiecmoliver.bsky.social

Feat. @jonnyjjt.bsky.social, @katiecmoliver.bsky.social, @admsrl.bsky.social, @andrewalanjohnson.bsky.social, Olivia Ange, Viola Schreer, @alicerudge.bsky.social, Columba Gonzalez-Duarte, Jan van der Valk, Christos Lynteris. + Thanks to Paul Thung, Anna Stepien, @sophiah.bsky.social, Candie Furber!

Our @GLO_ERC special section, '#Heroes and #Villains in the #Anthropocene', is finally out in @EnvHumanities! We explore ideas of heroism & villainy + politics of blame in an age of planetary crisis and ask how these can be reworked for the present read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...

“Aldrovandi’s herbarium preserves the memory of the first signs of a radical transformation of the European flora and habitats.” The living stories these pressed plants still tell of climate, migrations and time. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

been making dips @cgold.bsky.social 👀🇵🇸

Lancaster against genocide 🕊️🇵🇸 Pictured: the daughter of a Kindertransport child addressing the crowd. Now children are reciting the names of murdered Palestinians. 💔

I need some (UK) vegan memory help! Does anyone remember a few years ago, Bute Island Sheese advertising for people to go work for them on Bute? Was there an organised job marketing campaign? I don't think I'm imagining it, but I also can't find any evidence of it

Scholars, students, activists in the UK, please sign this letter: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We keep doing this. The next London march for Palestine is on Saturday. Ceasefire now. End the siege. End the occupation. (Poster by Tom Greenwood)

Registration is now live! Durham Trans Ecologies Symposium, 22-23 Nov 2023, online only. Visit tinyurl.com/TransEcologiesRegistration to see the full programme and reserve your place by 15 Nov

Don’t mean to brag but a student just told me I am an icon 💅

Putting on my out of office for a day of “research commitments” (going to the garden centre to look at the Christmas displays)

Always remember what keir starmer said about brianna ghey: absolutely nothing

The pre-semester anxiety is really starting to hit now. I hate being busy! I was not made to work, I was made to sit and stare at the sea all day

Geographers and geography adjacent folks: what are the most interesting, most fun, most creative methodologies you've seen recently? Looking for examples to show students beginning their dissertation process.

There aren’t many things I can confidently say that I do well, but I am 100% confident in my ability to write an excellent letter of complaint about university processes

I’m fundraising to pay my solicitors fees following a conviction for failing to leave the road during an anti-fascist counter-demo at the Honor Oak Pub in June. Please share widely and contribute if you feel able to 💕 opencollective.com/south-london...

I talked to ABC Australia's Jonathan Green about climate, carnivory, and culture (wars). Have a listen: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

trying to refrain from posting too much work stuff but very pleased to see today that my book has a cover and even more pleased to see that IT IS AN ONION

On 15th Nov, I'll be at Bookhaus Bristol with Bristol University Press and Steve Cooke for University Press Week, speaking at the launch of his book 'What are Animal Rights For?'- it will also be a first look at my book 'What's Veganism For?' www.bookhausbristol.com/product/what...

📚Weekend reading from The GJ 📚 'Claiming veganism and vegan geographies' by @katiecmoliver.bsky.social et al. considers how subdisciplines are formed within Geography, mapping out a pluralistic space for vegan geographies to dwell in & across. doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geo #geosky

I’ve made a potentially disastrous mistake of accepting a hen-themed gift from Liam’s aunt, no doubt opening the floodgates to chicken gifts for every occasion for the next few decades

I'm going to a workshop to make zines about Morecambe/the sea this afternoon!

All solidarity to everyone who's been on strike this week at UK universities! Struggle = community = justice = good education = universities with an actual future

You shouldn’t have to work if there’s a bird outside you want to watch

On the third anniversary of The British Library coming to my office to take 36 boxes of research materials to establish the Kim Stallwood Archive, my latest blog reflects on the subsequent activities and accomplishments. kimstallwood.com/2023/09/28/a...

Action movie where AI hellbent on humanity’s annihilation can only be stopped by force-training it on the data of a crotchety poet dragged out of retirement

listening to Radio 6 Music gives me a feel for what it would be like to be a middle-aged dad

finally woke up feeling normal-ish today, so took myself off to Leighton Moss. No bearded tits, but otters, deer, and marsh harriers!

First illness of the season hitting hard for me 😷

Very excited to have been offered a slot in the local festival of social science that I have zero recollection of what I said I’d do 👌

Brought a heavy “I’m depressed and you’re making it worse” vibe to the department away day today

| always feel so melancholic when I see a flock of migratory birds. And when I see a bird that has fallen far behind, it feels like a fist is closing around my heart. Unbelievable what these little animals can do. ❤️🥺🌿 Made a comic about this. Bigger version here: www.instagram.com/p/CxZB-9DoYc...

Tried a new brand of nutritional yeast and it stinks like feet 🤮

Today’s high tide at Heysham. You can almost forget there’s a huge nuclear power plant just round that corner

I’ve taken over an undergraduate research methods course this year and a bit disheartened to see it previously framed as “you’ll probably hate this module as it’s methods but here’s why it might be ok.” No shade on my colleagues - but do students hate methods?!

thank you to @mnailatikau.bsky.social for sending me this. i want to briefly comment on how dangerous this line of thinking is: that 1. we as Anglo-Europeans have the right to meddle in nonhuman species communication and 2. that AI is a viable medium of translation

Got a notification this week that it’s been just over a year since I started my lectureship. What a nightmare year it’s been! Here’s hoping the next one is better/I can get out of here quickly if it’s not

a few pics from last weeks trip to Mars (walking across morecambe bay in saharan dust)